June 2017
CMA CGM is to acquire domestic Brazilian line Mercosul from Maersk Line for an undisclosed sum, subject to Brazilian regulatory approval and the closing of Maersk’s Hamburg Süd acquisition. CMA CGM said the purchase would strengthen its service offering to and South America, most notably in Brazil especially cabotage and door-to-door services. Integration of Mercosul within CMA CGM will start at the same time as the Hamburg Süd integration, which ...
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Cargolux has formally signed its joint venture to create a cargo airline with a Chinese operating licence. Three quarters of the shares in this airline will be held by HNCA, the Henan Airport Group and the Xinggang Investment Group Company. Cargolux will hold the remaining 25%. Henan Cargo Airlines plans ...
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Eastern Caribbean specialist Geest Line has appointed Glasgow-based KC Liner Agencies as its Scottish agent. It marks a return to the Scottish market for Geest Line after a ten year absence.
Geest Line carries more cargo between Europe and the Windward and Leeward Isles than any other shipping line using four ...
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DSV has acquired an additional 140,000sq m of land adjacent to its facilities in Venlo, Netherlands, which it will develop with 83,000sq m of additional warehousing. It brings the forwarder’s total space at the site to 210,000sq m, not including the DSV Road cross-docking terminal 2km to the south.
DSV says ...
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Delta Air Lines has appointed Eric Wilson as managing director, cargo global Sales, a role previously held by Rob LeBel. He joined Delta Cargo in 2008 and since 2014 was director–APAC cargo sales, based in Tokyo.
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Etihad Cargo has launched a weekly freighter service between its Abu Dhabi hub and the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, to support Cambodia’s garment and footwear industry. It operates Abu Dhabi–Singapore–Phnom Penh–Abu Dhabi using an Airbus A330F with a payload of 64 tonnes.
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Shortsea carrier Unifeeder has confirmed that itssecond Polish/Baltic sailing to the Humber will call in Hull, complementing the existing weekly Immingham call and doubling capacity on the route.
Unifeeder, whose current weekly sailing into Immingham departs from Klaipeda/Gydnia and Szczecin, will offer a second service to Hull from Klaipeda and Gdynia ...
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Yorkshire’s Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA) recorded its busiest ever year for cargo in 2016. A 113% increase over 2015 boosted traffic to 9,625 tonnes, helped by a temporary seven-week relocation of DHL’s air hub operation while the runway at East Midland’s was being resurfaced. During that time the airport handled ...
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DFDS' marked a new era on its North Sea on 9 June when Mrs Tutte Østergaard (wife of the former DFDS board chairman) named Tulipa Seaways, one of two new freight superferries its Immingham-Rotterdam service.
She and her sister ship Gardenia Seaways are a new generation of superferries commissioned to handle ...
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Following the election result on 9 June, the Freight Transport Association (FTA) has called for the new government to rethink its plan to leave the EU Customs Union.
It says that exiting the customs union could mean tariffs, border checks, customs declarations and other bureaucracy for UK businesses that trade in ...
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